Featured Movies - Page 161
Gringo
2026
Gringo
2026
Salitre no more
2026
Salitre no more
2026
For around fifteen years, I have been filming a forest of imburana de cambão trees that has been progressively disappearing, located on the border between the states of Bahia and Pernambuco. The visual saturation created through image overlaps and the division of the screen into three parts fosters the emergence of a particular rhythm, in which pulsating texts impose other forms of escape.The gradual disappearance of this forest echoes texts evoking the consequences of climate change, while also inscribing fire and logging as human acts contributing to this impoverishment.The basis of this film was the installation of the same name presented as part of an exhibition at the Frans Krajcberg Space in 2025. The film is denser. The imburanas de cambão burst into flames as the sertão turns into desert.Telúrica, a Íntima Utopia
2026
In São Paulo, the Ueinzz theater company — formed by actors living with psychological distress — creates a play about the extinction of the Earth and the human desire to endure. During rehearsals, dreams, words, and ways of being emerge as fragile species to be preserved. As they perform, the group reflects on survival, belonging, and the ongoing preservation of their own community.Daydream
2026
Daydream
2026
On his first day of retirement, Leo faints on his way to his best friend's funeral. When he regains consciousness, he resumes his journey to the cemetery, where he experiences a strange and sublime personal catharsis.Echoic
2026
Echoic
2026
A young man is thrust into a surreal nightmare, forced to confront an unseen force that won't let him go.Sideweighs and Backwords
2026
Using a monoprint printmaking technique to recreate archival footage, Sideweighs and Backwords forefronts the imperfect action of memory. In opposition to the immaculate reproduction of traditional print and digital media, human memory is exposed as a verb – a constant recreation of a sequence of events, a story we tell ourselves. The story told here is a movement between homeland and a new home, a constant traversing of terrain and terms.Tortoise
2026
Tortoise
2026
Observed by an elderly figure, a child faces a moment of quiet significance when they encounter a tortoise on its back. A hand-drawn animated watercolour, the film transforms a fleeting encounter into a reflection on vulnerability and how we carry it.Paradise Lost
2026
Paradise Lost
2026
Three journeys from Belfast to Glasgow uncover how a football club’s disappearance reshaped a community. Through intimate character portraits, the film examines identity, memory, and belonging in the shadow of conflict.Commissioned Confession
2026
An artist born in Jerusalem is commissioned by a German institution to create a work of art about another artist – a sculptor celebrated by the Nazis. He approaches the task with a silent film. How does one describe something that is, by the very nature of its commission, steeped in violence?Averno
2026
Averno
2026
I Am Neo
2026
I Am Neo
2026
Neo was three and a half years old when a devastating car accident left him with a severe brainstem injury. After five days suspended between life and death, he wakes up unable to breathe, speak, walk, or eat on his own. In the hospital, his parents, Lior and Galit, pick up a camera and never put it down. Shaped from hundreds of hours of intimate footage, 'I Am Neo' is a portrait of a child and his family slowly rebuilding their lives, revealing both the fragility of life, and the strength of the human spirit.How to Feed a Dictator
2026
Five private chefs to fearsome dictators all over the world share their experiences of the kitchens and circumstances that led them to these sometimes dangerous and often morally compromising workplaces.Magma
2026
Magma
2026
Searching for answers about her Algerian family's ties to both sides of the Independence war, a filmmaker uncovers a tangle of contradicting buried histories.The Entwinement of Fate
2026
Su Kinadsusumpat nu Bagi (The Entwinement of Fate) follows siblings Aisha and Ali as they navigate grief and survival within their Moro community after the death of their parents. The only inheritance left behind is their father’s small tinagtag business—a Maguindanaon delicacy that becomes both their livelihood and their last connection to home. Determined to preserve her father’s legacy, Aisha continues making and selling tinagtag. But as a young lady forced to take her mother’s roles, the burden of keeping the business alive slowly wears on her. Meanwhile, Ali struggles with the weight of their circumstances. Torn between keeping his father’s memoir and moving forward with his dreams, he began to question whether holding onto tradition is worth the cost. As circumstances deepen, the siblings are forced to confront the grief they have long avoided, the fractures within their identity, and the fragile bond that continues to entwine them together.Fruit Gathering
2026
Fruit Gathering
2026
In industrial Yangon, young factory worker San Kyi dreams of returning to her native village. Her relationship with co-worker Theint Theint Oo evolves from closeness to growing distance, revealing tensions between their expectations and life prospects. Amid exhausting labour, social repression, and economic uncertainty, both women seek escape and intimacy. San faces family pressure, emotional confusion, and a deep yearning for a life of dignity. The film delicately portrays female friendship and the fragile balance between intimacy, longing for change, and the social realities of contemporary Myanmar.Will Time Ever Let Me Forget You
2026
Years after losing Emma, Aaron wanders familiar places where memories of their time together resurface. A letter she left forces him to confront loss, love, and the way she continues to live within him.Sizzler '77
2026
Sizzler '77
2026
In the summer of 1977, a group of working girls are being coerced by a mysterious and sinister pimp Bossy Jim and his young partner Chaka, to become involved in a profit-share scheme.Dolores
2026
Dolores
2026
On the eve of her 65th birthday, Dolores has a premonition: her life is about to change. She will own a successful casino. However, her gambling addiction of the past may work against her. Deborah, her only daughter, waits for her boyfriend's release from prison to start a new life, whilst her granddaughter Duda clings to a chance of working in the United States. All three women will strive to make their dreams of a better life a reality, going for it all or nothing.OK.FINE.
2026
OK.FINE.
2026
Eight-year-old Xiao Ru lives in a perfect world, blessed with a hilarious father and a caring mother. But when her phone unexpectedly breaks, it sets off a solo journey to get it fixed. On this adventure, she not only faces the unknown but also stumbles upon a cruel truth she was never meant to discover.Humpty Dumpty X
2026
Humpty Dumpty X
2026
Follows filmmaker Tony Kaye's creative journey after directing 1998's "American History X".
